Richard Alan: 163 books

Southern California.  Summer, 1962.  With "Big Al" Torres and his squirt-gun-toting goons moving to corner the Thirty-Ninth Street lemonade-stand racket, Bobbie Johnston gears up for war.  This summer, he has help: a kid who knows his way around squirt guns and water balloons. ...

For anyone but the youngest son of the Clan Chief, slaying the fiercest flying beast on the twelve planets would be an impressive task.  Not for Dras'unat.  He must do so using a temperamental flying chariot from a long-dead race.  But that won't stop him.  He will prevail. ...

After centuries of delivering toys to all the good little girls and boys, an evil elf comes to the North Pole to bring it to an end.  The reindeer spring into action to deliver a powerful plea to the children of the world: Save Our Santa.  Save him... from her.   Richard...

When Johnny asked Debbie Coyle to the Homecoming game, he never thought she'd accept.  He had no idea what Fate was thinking.  But as the engine to his dad's tired Oldsmobile began to sputter on the way to pick her up for the most important Friday night of his life, he had a terrible feeling...

When someone tosses an annoying animated puppet beneath Jack's car to frame him for a hit-and-run homicide one dark and stormy night, the giant killer's mood sours.  Someone has forgotten a very important rule: never mess with the baddest bad boy in town.   Richard Alan Dickson,...

With the evil space dogs' resonance chamber ready to destroy Katlantis, the gloves come off.  Cat Patrol Delta gears up for war.  But when the Earth dogs fight the space dogs for the same territory, Growler the Mutt comes to the curious cats with an offer that may simply be too hard to ignore....

While investigating a signal by its enemies in the Canine Cartel, Cat Patrol Delta crashes on the little known planet Earth.  Delta discovers a war between cats and dogs down there, too... and the cats are losing!  But when the dogs snatch a space cat, the earthbound mutts may quickly find...

When Grot the Ogre discovers Rafael the Rat in his living room on Christmas Eve, his first thought is to toss the rat out the window.  Grot dislikes pests, particularly pests with problems.  But when those problems bring a pack of angry trolls to his door, Grot must choose between throwing...

Out of the depths of the Irish Potato Famine comes an irresistible story about beating the odds and finding hope in the most desperate of times—the improbable, intimate account of how sixteen-year-old Myra sails to America dreaming of a new future. “There was no keening at Ciaran’s funeral;...

When the worst hunter in the south goes deer hunting on Christmas Eve, the last thing he expects is for a big old target to drop in his lap.  Unfortunately for Little Bobby Brown, there's just one minor catch.   Richard Alan Dickson, author of "Hank the Happy Snowman,"...

When a pair of feuding families call a Thanksgiving truce and start looking for a feast, Tom the Target-Tailed Turkey grows a little nervous.  When he hears their plans to put him on the menu, he flies into a panic.  The truce must be cancelled at all costs, if he can just figure out how....

When the whole school laughs at him after a Halloween prank, an embarrassed young man plots his revenge.  They want tricks?  Fine.  Tomorrow night, on Halloween, James William Bruce will treat the schoolyard bullies to a prank they'll not soon forget.   Richard...

With the Reaper rounding up the rebels, Cat Patrol Delta has its back to the wall.  Four space cats are hard pressed to match the combined might of the evil Canine Cartel.  But help arrives in the form of four swashbuckling Alpha cats.  Will eight space cats be enough to save the day,...

When people return to space after forty years, they discover they're not alone.  The artificial intelligence programs running the old moon base have grown and prospered in their absence... and those programs are not of a mind to simply step aside and hand it all back.   Richard...